Nazir Jairazbhoy
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Nazir Jairazbhoy was a Professor of Folk and classical music of South Asia at University of California at Los Angeles, where he was the founding chair of the Department of Ethnomusicology and Systematic Musicology. He was appointed professor of music at UCLA in 1975, and retired in 1994. He was president of the Society for Ethnomusicology
Although born in England of Indian parents, he was educated up in India. He began sitar studies as a child in Bombay from Madhav Lal. After graduation from the Doon School and the University of Washington, he was student of Dr. Arnold Adriaan Bake at the School of Oriental and African Studies University of London, receiving his doctorate in 1971.
His publications number over one hundred, and include articles as wel as audio and video productions concerning both classical and folk music of India.
He is founder of the Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE) of the American Institute of Indian Studies in New Dheli.
He was married to the ethnomusicologist and singer Dr. Amy Catlin-Jairabhoy and they both owned Apsara Media for Intercultural Education in Van Nuys, California.
[edit] Major publications
- The Rags of North Indian Music: Their Structure and Evolution Popular Prakashan:Bombay 1995, ISBN 81-7154-395-2 (First published by Faber and Faber, 1971)
- Hi-Tech Shiva and Other Apocryphal Stories: An Academic Allegory.
- A Musical Journey through India, 1963-1964 (video)
- Bake Restudy in India: 1938-1984 (jointly with A. Catlin), a video which received an award from the Society for Visual Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association, and
- Retooling a Tradition: A Rajasthani Puppet Takes Umbrage at his Stringholders (a fictional documentary)
